/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Mastic
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A tonic which promotes appetite, and therefore only increases the misery of a hungry man.
“Like the starved wretch that hungry mastic chews,
But cheats himself and fosters his disease.”
West: Triumphs of the Gout (Luoian).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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